On: I Wrote My Fastest Hashtable

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I might have given the wrong impression, see my other comment below. "Clowntown" is almost always directed at ourselves, in a self-mocking, playful way.

Also see answers to this Quora question: https://www.quora.com/When-people-who-work-at-Facebook-say-c...

> It's a way to bring much-needed levity to the process of solving hard problems.

> It's a playful, tongue-in-cheek, self-deprecating term to describe a situation in a company whose motto was "move fast and break things."

[notJim → ot]

Ahh, that does sound better.